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Path planning in the multi-robot system refers to calculating a set of actions for each robot, which will move each robot to its goal without conflicting with other robots. Lately, the research topic has received significant attention for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jingchuan Chen , Wei Chen , Jing Li , Xiguang Wei , Wenzhe Tan , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Hongbo Li

Computational and complexity theory are core components of the computer science curriculum, and in the vast majority of cases are taught using decision problems as the main paradigm. For experienced practitioners, decision problems are the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-12-11 John MacCormick

Previously, the author has developed a framework within which to quantify and compare the resources consumed during computational-especially unconventional computational-processes (adding to the familiar resources of run-time and memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Ed Blakey

This paper studies a class of multi-robot coordination problems where a team of robots aim to reach their goal regions with minimum time and avoid collisions with obstacles and other robots. A novel numerical algorithm is proposed to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Guoxiang Zhao , Minghui Zhu

Parameterized complexity theory offers a framework for a refined analysis of hard algorithmic problems. Instead of expressing the running time of an algorithm as a function of the input size only, running times are expressed with respect to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sebastian Siebertz , Alexandre Vigny

The research and development of intelligent automation solutions is a ground-breaking point for the factory of the future. A promising and challenging mission is the use of autonomous robot systems to automate tasks in the field of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Christian Friedrich , Akos Csiszar , Armin Lechler , Alexander Verl

Task allocation using a team or coalition of robots is one of the most important problems in robotics, computer science, operational research, and artificial intelligence. In recent work, research has focused on handling complex objectives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Haris Aziz , Arindam Pal , Ali Pourmiri , Fahimeh Ramezani , Brendan Sims

When a large collection of objects (e.g., robots, sensors, etc.) has to be deployed in a given environment, it is often required to plan a coordinated motion of the objects from their initial position to a final configuration enjoying some…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-07-03 Davide Bilò Luciano Gualà , Stefano Leucci , Guido Proietti

The intuition that a long history is required for the emergence of complexity in natural systems is formalized using the notion of depth. The depth of a system is defined in terms of the number of parallel computational steps needed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 J. Machta

We consider the problem of planning a collision-free path of a robot in the presence of risk zones. The robot is allowed to travel in these zones but is penalized in a super-linear fashion for consecutive accumulative time spent there. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-10 Oren Salzman , Siddhartha Srinivasa

This paper introduces a graph-based, potential-guided method for path planning problems in unknown environments, where obstacles are unknown until the robots are in close proximity to the obstacle locations. Inspired by optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Haoyan Zhai , Magnus Egerstedt , Haomin Zhou

Path planning in the presence of dynamic obstacles is a challenging problem due to the added time dimension in search space. In approaches that ignore the time dimension and treat dynamic obstacles as static, frequent re-planning is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Anirudh Vemula , Katharina Muelling , Jean Oh

The scheduling problem is a key class of optimization problems and has various kinds of applications both in practical and theoretical scenarios. In the scheduling problem, probabilistic analysis is a basic tool for investigating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Daiki Suruga

We consider the speed planning problem for a robotic manipulator. In particular, we present an algorithm for finding the time-optimal speed law along an assigned path that satisfies velocity and acceleration constraints and respects the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Luca Consolini , Marco Locatelli , Andrea Minari , Akos Nagy , Istvan Vajk

Model complexity is a fundamental problem in deep learning. In this paper we conduct a systematic overview of the latest studies on model complexity in deep learning. Model complexity of deep learning can be categorized into expressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xia Hu , Lingyang Chu , Jian Pei , Weiqing Liu , Jiang Bian

In this paper we study the complexity of the motion planning problem for control-affine systems. Such complexities are already defined and rather well-understood in the particular case of nonholonomic (or sub-Riemannian) systems. Our aim is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Frédéric Jean , Dario Prandi

We define the complexity of a continuous-time linear system to be the minimum number of bits required to describe its forward increments to a desired level of fidelity, and compute this quantity using the rate distortion function of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Eric Wendel , John Baillieul , Joseph Hollmann

We propose an extension of the framework for discussing the computational complexity of problems involving uncountably many objects, such as real numbers, sets and functions, that can be represented only through approximation. The key idea…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Akitoshi Kawamura , Stephen Cook

Motion planning in the presence of multiple dynamic obstacles is an important research problem from the perspective of autonomous vehicles as well as space-constrained multi-robot work environment. In this paper, we address the motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Trishant Roy , Anindya Harchowdhury , Leena Vachhani

This paper presents a solution for the problem of optimal planning for a robot in a collaborative human-robot team, where the human supervisor is intermittently available to assist the robot in completing tasks more quickly. Specifically,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Abhinav Dahiya , Stephen L. Smith